Taking Woodstock [blu-ray dvd] / Focus Features presents an Ang Lee film ; produced by James Schamus, Ang Lee, Celia Costas ; screenplay by James Schamus ; directed by Ang Lee.
Title from container. Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber. Based on the book by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte. Special features: Deleted scenes; feature commentary with director Ang Lee and James Schamus; "Peace, love and cinema" featurette; additional deleted scenes; "No audience required: the Earth Light Players" featurette; access to the latest trailers and more through the BD-Live Center.
Summary:
In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the promoters and generate business. Three week later half a million people are on their way to his neighbor's farm.
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